The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Use the search bar to discover materials or browse through the collections. The filters will help you identify your area of interest.
Search entities
Source of item | Title | Description |
---|---|---|
Research Data Mantra | Data handling tutorials | Practical tutorials to manage and handle research data for particular software packages: SPSS, R, ArcGIS and N-Vivo. Tutorials contain many practical exercises. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Data in QGIS | This guide will cover how to map census data in QGIS. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Microdata using R | This guide aims to show the strength of using Census Microdata for a variety of research purposes, via a worked example taken from real-life research. |
Software Carpentry | R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis | An introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data |
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | UK Business Data User Conference 2021 | The UK Data Service and the Office for National Statistics (UK) held a business data conference in 2021. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | What is complex sample design? | This guide covers the basics of sampling as well as other related topics such as clustering, stratification and weighting. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | What is weighting? | This guide explains the main reasons for using weights, how weights work and how to use weighting variables in statistical analysis. |
Title | Description | Organisation |
---|---|---|
Harvard University: online courses | About 200 online courses dedicated to various disciplines including humanities and social sciences. |
Harvard University |
OpenScience MOOC | Research is getting a global makeover, in part thanks to the power of the internet and the tools it provides for us, and in part due to a growing call for accountability (e.g., reproducibility and |
|
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | The UK Data Service SecureLab has enabled secure access to the most sensitive and confidential data in the collection since 2011. |
UK Data Service |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | This source includes a series of resources in the form of guides and e-books dedicated to trainers and students interested in sample design, weighting, changes over time using cross sectional and l |
UK Data Service |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | This is a collection of resources dedicated to teachers, trainers and their students but could also be useful to researchers and the general public. |
UK Data Service |